Ideas for studying "Everlasting Punishment" for October 30, 2016

Dear Friends, Here is the link to Chaplain Janet Horton's Chapel Talk from Monday morning at the Upper School, if you would like to listen to it. I will put up the link to her Bible talk given on Thursday night, October 20, next week.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKtAerwqirg

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Possible ideas for the sections of this week's Lesson: (These are just ideas that have been coming to me. You may see completely different ideas.)

Possible Theme: everlasting love; everlasting mercy; everlasting kindness

Section I: God is Love—impartial and universal Love

Section II: Cain and Abel Story—Divine Love corrects and governs man

"Through repentance, spiritual baptism, and regeneration, mortals put off their material beliefs and false individuality." 242: 1-3

Baptizo (baptism) related to making a pickle

The gift of baptism by Elise Moore

Section III: Woman taken in adultery:  Repentance and Reformation

Section IV: Jesus washes disciples' feet: spiritual baptism

Section V: Raising of Dorcas: Regeneration (producing anew, new birth, born again)

Section VI: God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin

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Word Study for "Everlasting Punishment"

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Research on: Gen 4: Cain and Abel

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The Temple is the place where Jesus heals the woman taken in adultery. This healing probably happened in the Court of Women.

92c3f4d9-438d-4a1e-afdc-98a12efaea7eCourt of Women

Research: John 5. Woman Taken in Adultery

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Research: Acts 9. Peter raises Dorcas

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Research: Heb 1. 1 to 3, 9 express image

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CHILDREN'S IDEAS:

There are five different ways to teach about Peter and Dorcas on this website link. Scroll down to see all of them. Click on the blue places where it says "Click here to download" to see if any of this might be helpful to you:

http://www.biblefunforkids.com/2016/06/peter-and-dorcas.html#more

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Other ideas for very young children:

Concrete objects or symbols

Nothing Can Be added to a mind already full

Bell Ringer

Fishing Game

Footsteps of Truth

Stickers that tell Bible stories

I hope these ideas are helpful to you in some way. Please share the blog if you think it would be helpful to someone else.

With love,

Kathy

 

 

 

 

 

Ideas for studying "Probation After Death" for Oct. 17 - 23, 2016

Dear friends, I want to let you know about a Tour to Israel that my sister Kristy Christian and I are organizing for June 4 -14. If you are interested in knowing more about it, please e-mail me, and I'll send you all the information. Kristy and I have led tours to Israel for many years, and we would love to include you on this tour if you would like to study more about the Bible with us.

kathy.merrill@principia.edu

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Lesson Ideas: 

This week's Lesson includes words that are related to "walking." Notice words like walk, steps, stepping-stone, the way, pathway, etc. Remember that early Christians were not called "Christians" until Antioch, many years after the resurrection. Before this, they were called "the followers of the Way." (Acts 11:26)

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Here is some research on the healing and events in the Lesson:

Research on Gen. 5.21 to 24 Enoch

Heb 1: 1 to 3, 9 express image

Matt. 16: Whom do men say that I am?

Mark 16: Resurrection and Ascension

Romans 12.2 be not conformed

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Ideas for teaching the Bible to children:

Road Map for Life: diagram

Standing Porter

Story Puzzle for beginning readers (Use this idea to create all different kinds of Bible stories for beginning readers to use. You can plot the story on a map. Look for people, places, and events. Cut them out and use them for puzzles. Send home in a baggy.)

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These ideas are to study some of the events in Peter's life. Next week's Lesson includes the raising of Dorcas by Peter. 

Outline of some of the events in the Life of Peter

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpUGtFVjhpRHpjQUU/view

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Great visuals for Peter escaping from prison:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpM3hmZ0ZOWFYyS3c/view

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I hope some of these ideas are helpful to you. If you are interested in having Principia Acorn Director Dorothy Halverson and I come to your church community to share ideas about teaching the Bible to very young children, please let me know. We have some open dates in the spring. 

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Warmly,

Kathy Merrill